Moinette Blonde

Brewed by Brasserie Dupont
Style: Abbey Tripel
Tourpes-Leuze, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

750ml - Nice internally glowing gold color, lacing was great. Similar notes to the vielle provision, with the dry hopping taking more of a lead yet keeeping the seltzerlike mouthfeel..

0.33 l bottle. Deep golden color with thick fluffy head. Dry, tart, fruity, honeyish, spicy and warming aroma with notes of vanilla, cristmas cookies, pineapple and lemon. Dry, tart, fruity and spicy flavor with clove, cardamon and cinnamon. Bitter, fruity and herbal finish. Excellent!

Draught: Sweet aroma of yeast, apples, pears, coriander and spices. Champagne-like. Poured golden yellow in color with a huge, dense, foamy, white head that lasted throughout. Excellent lacing. Hazy. Medium sweet flavor. Tasted of yeast, alcohol, pepper, and herbs. Light to medium body. Dry texture. Average to lively carbonation. Sweet, dry, white pepper finish.

Bottle. Pours hazy golden with thick foamy head. Aroma is yeasty, with some bright hop notes. Sweetness in flavor nicely offset by pleasing dry herbal bitterness of hops throughout. Tasting very slight hints of vanilla and orange-y citrus fruit. Full, rich mouthfeel and quite carbonated. Some alcohol flavors in the finish. A mild, straightforward and satifying beer.

750ml bottle (Kaisla, Helsinki), shared by Pat Perfumy sharp bitter hoppiness. Slight gingeriness too. A little harsh in places. Didn’t really press our buttons, but nothing really wrong with it - wrong time of evening perhaps?

Caged and corked. Poured bright yellow-orange with a nice billowy head that settled but clung to the side of the glass for dear life. My first impression of the aroma is "pencil eraser". Somewhere behind that rubbery thing is a little bit of fruit. Same thing happens on the palate. Now my mind has that dry pink rubber essence stuck to it. Free your mind and your tongue will follow. Still a bit chalky, wheaty, grassy, lightly herby and a very dry finish. Where’s my cheese plate? (#3144, 10/16/2007)

Bottle. Pours a beautiful cloudy orange colour with a big creamy white well lasting head leaving a very good sticky lacing. Aroma of yeast and citrus with wheat, herbs, orange and alcohol. Good soft and creamish mouthfeel. The flavour has a good sweetness, yeast, wheat, fruits, citrus, herbs and hops. Dry fruity bitter finish. Very tasty brew indeed.

Bottled. Hazy yellow colour, not muich head. Aroma is graqss, spices, earth and some floral hints. Flavour is very much the same. A quite boring brew, but does hide the 8.5% alcohol very well.